Attention
8 articles
Screens Under Three: What's Worth Worrying About, What Isn't
Most under-three screen-time advice comes wrapped in either guilt or finger-wagging. Neither is useful. The real picture is more practical: under-twos...
Background TV: Why the One Nobody's Watching Still Matters
The TV in the corner playing the news while the baby crawls around the rug feels harmless. Nobody is *watching*. The damage it does is precisely becau...
Concentration-Building Games for Toddlers
A two-year-old's attention span is short, and that fact often gets read fatalistically — as if the wiring were fixed. It isn't. The prefrontal circuit...
How to Be Mentally Present With Your Child
"Mental presence" sounds like a yoga concept and is really a measurable thing — Tronick has been measuring it for half a century, Adrian Ward has been...
How to Divide Attention Between Children of Different Ages
When a second child arrives, parents often experience a sudden, concrete realisation: there is one of me and two of them. Every moment with the baby i...
Child Development 0–5: Milestones, Motor Skills, and Language
Child development is faster, messier, and more personal than the milestone charts make it look. One baby walks at ten months and says nothing for anot...
Executive Function in Young Children: What It Is and Why It Matters
Executive function is the set of cognitive skills that sit behind a child's ability to plan a sequence of actions, hold information in mind while usin...
Early Signs of ADHD in Young Children: What to Watch For and When to Seek Assessment
Most toddlers are inattentive, fidgety, and impulsive. That is normal development, not a disorder. The genuinely hard question for parents and teacher...